New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-04
REOPENING CITY CHURCHES
PASTORS AND FLocKs TO MEET TO-DAY
SOME OF THU CHANCES AND IMPROVEMENTS NAM
MIN, IT'LL


DURING THE SUMMER.
The summer season IL nearly over; the cool dsv.
of the week just on ded have brought great msnv
New-York people back TO their homes eomevhA
earlier than usual and In the many churches that ara
to be reopened to-day the pastors will be greeted bv
familiar faces in many pews. Extensive repars n
churches will prevent their opening al present
while the heightened vacations OF number Of minis
will have the same effect In others. Still othere
are churches which have not been closed for the sum
mer MONTHS and in these the faces of visiting clergy.
men are to be seon It will be fully month before
all the churches have opened with their own pastors
In the pulpit. Regarding the churches that will ovsn
to-day well a. those to reopen the following
facts have been gathered by TsIBUNE reporter:
Tue Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church will b
opened again to-day but DR.. Crosby will not preach
He has exchanged pulpits with the Rev. DR.. Van
Slyke OF Kingston, for two Sundays The Young
Peoples Prayer-uleeting Association Of the church
will hold lite first reunion after the summer HOLIDAYS
tomorrow night, and on the first Sunday In October
it will celebrate its fourth anniversary DIR. Crosby
has been spending the hot at his homo
at Pine HILL In the CatskIls where several members Of
bis congregation have also enjoyed season Of rurl
life.
In the fifth Avenue Church the Rev. w. w. CLARK
will preach the first three Sundays OF this month
The services will be held Ia the lectureroom in Fifty.
ffthst. Dr. Hall has not returned from Europe vet
The Rev. DIR. II. J. Van Dyke, of the Brick Church.
writes from Newport: IL have just got back from
few wseks' vacation OF excellent spert-samon fishing
trout fishing in the remote aud lovely country Of
Gase and after preaching here hope to return to my
Puipit the second Sunday OF September Meanwhile
DIR. y. s. Mitchell, OF Buffalo, is preaching at the
Brick Church.
The Rev. Dr. Charles S. Robinson, OF the Madison
Avenue Church, vii the city this week. 10
has been spending his summer in Dansville, y. Y.
The Rev. w. d. Buchanan, the assistant pastor form
erly OF the Seventh Avenue Mission OF DIR. HalI'a
church, has preached during the summer.
The Rev. K d. Harlan, OF the First Church. has not
returned from extensive tour which be is enjoying
during his vacation. Ms1y alterations have been
been put In at a OF 81 900 The church will not
be opened und the shira Sunday in September.
The new Pastor OF the fourteenth Street Church,
the Rev. H. T. McEwen, will preach to day. Dr.
Marling, the former pastor, has gone to Montreal.
The Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix rector OF Trinity Church
has not returned from his European trip, and the
assistant rectors officiating. The church has NOT
been closed during the summer.
Grace Church has not been closed this summer
During September the Rev. James Il. WATSON, tns
assistant minister will oatciate and preach. Dr..
Huntington is spending his vacation at various New
Englan resorts.
Extensive changes are being made in Calvary
Church A line new double orgsn has been put 10
near the chancs iu place of the old organ in the gal
lery. A boy choir, new feature in the church. Sil
be Introduced and supplementary double choir will
aid the singing materially. New stalls have been
placed on either side OF the double organ for the
of tho choir The services will be resumed to-day
but they will be conducted in the chapel adjoining
church, the alter atoms in the church pr0per
not fnished. Or. II. Y Satterlee Is expected TO
return from his European trip Saturday, but II his
steamer Is late in reaching the city the assistant
clergy of the church will oficiate on Sunday. The
church itself will be opened the following Sunday.
Over $4,000 is being expended by the Church OF
the Holy Trinity, at Madison-ave aud Forty second
ST. The chancel has been lowered fourteen inches and
extended tive feet. A brass communion has been
provided. The keyboard OF the organ tas been placed
In the chancel and the connection with the organ viii
b. made By electrical appliance, an engine being
placed in the basement for the purpose. dark
corner in the auditorium has been cut OF from the
main room aud will be used q robing-room Tor the
large mao choir winch is to be introduced this year.
The church has been newly the gas fixtures
are new, and with the new rector, the Rev. Dr. T.
Walpole Warren of London, the church may enter on
q new of prosperity. The first services will Be
hold next week. but DR.. Warren will not be here TILL
October.
ST. Georges Church has been open all summer. Tho
seats are free To-day there will be Holy Communion
at 8 a. m, morning prayer and sermon &C III O'clock,
ana evening prayer end sermon at p. NJ.
The Rev. DR.. a. F. kittredge has been spending the
summer with his family 10 tue White Mountains EX-
tensye alterations and repairs have been made 10 the
church during his vacation. handsome large chapel
hos been built adjoining the church and facing IN
Fifty with beautifully decorated walls
and cherry trimmings. The organ in the church has
been altered and painted the seats have been recash-
oned while the whole interior OF the church has been
ropsinted. New stained glass windows have taken
the place the oil which were OF dull reddish
color The alterations not sufficiently completed
for services in the church to-day but the architecs
hopes tv finish his work before next Sunday.